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2514885 No.2514885 [Reply] [Original]

What are some retro games that are about driving? Not racing, but driving.

Picture is related, I guess.

>> No.2514920

>>2514885
I don't really know if there is one that isn't OutRun OP.

>> No.2514976

Police Quest lol

>> No.2514978
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>> No.2514983
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>> No.2514986
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Quarantine 1: Post apoc taxi simulation

>> No.2514991

Obvious answer: Driver
Iffy answer: Crazy Taxi. If racing against the clock doesn't disqualify Outrun, then it shouldn't CT either.

>> No.2514994

Gran Turismo can just be about driving if you want it to be. You don't have to race, you can just pick a car and test run around or drive backwards or drift or drive the same straight back and forth or tune settings or take cool videos or just put on tunes and watch the scenery go by. I've spent heaps of time in all the GTs not-racing but still playing.

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>> No.2515000

What was that game on PSP where you drive around a Hawaiian island and have all tasks to do, and you win different cars and buy property?

>> No.2515004

>>2515000
I found it, Test Drive Unlimited

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>>2514885

[spoilers]easy missions, may be finished, without leaving the car.

>> No.2515043
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The Terminator, an old DOS game from 1991. It's about driving, shooting, stealing supplies, avoiding the cops, and whatever else you wanna do.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Terminator_video_games#The_Terminator_.28DOS.29
http://www.mobygames.com/game/terminator
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ix9iD64pV4

>> No.2515045

>>2514983
Came here to say this, if i am not mistaken it is an old dosgame with mapeditor
>looping after looping

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>>2515045
Yeah there's a track editor.
And there's an Amiga version of this game called 4D Sports Driving.

>> No.2515193

>>2514885
Outrun is still racing, it's just in a time attack format. Super Hang-On is time attack too.

>> No.2515425

>>2515004
Test Drive Unlimited is so close in spirit to what OutRun did. Sadly its production value is all over the place (brilliant cars, beautiful, albeit not spectacular landscape, terrible humans, occasionally odd physics), and the devs were too obsessed with making it multiplayer. There's a very faint hope for a TDU3

>> No.2515428

>>2515193
The director and designer of OutRun, Yu Suzuki, calls it a driving game, and he has a point. While you go fast, and there's a clock, the whole atmosphere of the game is about a massive transcontinental joyride wherever the road may take you. That is VERY different to racing games.

>> No.2515472

>>2514885
Rad Racer

>> No.2515474

>>2514978
do the cars always breakdown?

>> No.2515549
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2515549

>No one mentions Desert Bus.

>> No.2515559

>>2514991

I spent HOURS in Driver just driving around trying fitting into the normal traffic. The police mechanic sooner or later ends this, you drive a liiiittle bit too fat over a red stoplight or slightly bump into a car- and now they try to ram you- which of couse leads to you ramming even more and your crime level raising...
Still, comfy as fuck.

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Road Raider (aka Motor Massacre):

http://www.lemonamiga.com/games/details.php?id=900

You play a bounty hunter looking for a mad scientist in the post-apocalyptic wasteland. You can drive around The City (the last one that's still halfway intact) in your armored car, shooting other cars (and trying to avoid getting shot), stopping at shops for repairs and upgrades, and sometimes getting out of your car to search buildings for supplies (those also are full of hazards and zombies, but you have a gun...) Kind of a survival game with some driving elements...

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Anyone play this game? (Auto Duel)
It's supposed to be a computer version of the old Car Wars board game (by Steve Jackson Games), or something related.

>> No.2515615

>>2514996
this is honestly a great driving game, its so fun just to cruise around, especially back in the day when sandbox games just werent common. I remember wasting close to an hour for every map on here when I was a kid.

>> No.2515617

>>2515615
It also helped that actual racing was rather boring and you could score plenty by killing everything

>> No.2515626

- Rad Racer (since it's also only against time like OutRun)
- Test Drive (multiple)
- GTA (well)

Bonus:
- Tomy Racing Turbo

>> No.2515706
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TRUCKER.BAS was the very first "driving" game I played, way back in early 80's on an Osborne 1 running CP/M 2.2. I typed the game in from some issue of Creative Computing magazine. The code was later published along with some other BASIC games in this book:
http://atariarchives.org/bigcomputergames/

Atari 8-bit version (if you have an emulator):
http://gury.atari8.info/details_games/3223.php

DOS version:
http://www.classicdosgames.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=933
If you want to play the TRUCKER.BAS in dosbox, you need GWBASIC.EXE, like from here or somewhere:
https://web.archive.org/web/20091027112638/http://geocities.com/KindlyRat/GWBASIC.html
Put the EXE and BAS files in the same directory inside dosbox, then run the EXE, and type:

load"trucker.bas"
run

More info here if you get stuck or whatever:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GW-BASIC

It might be necessary to lower cycles, because the game uses some timing loops after it prints some special messages to the screen, then erases the screen and resumes normal play.

The 3 routes the game offers you have different characteristics. Some are more dangerous to speed on. Some are longer and take more fuel and time. It would be good to have a map of USA next to you, unless you're familiar with all the city names. The game doesn't provide its own map, because it's a pure text mode game (as most other things from those days...) Still it was pretty impressive back then.

>> No.2515715

>>2515706
got in-game screenshots and/or comments on the general gameplay?

>> No.2515721
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>>2514983
This is a great game! There's like two dozen different tracks in the game, you can make your own in an editor too. I used to spend days making jumps and loop-de-loops and watching the replays. So much fun.

>> No.2515726

>>2515721
Stunts is a classic. I don't think you're even allowed to post on /vr/ if you have not played it.

>> No.2515835

I've never played Outrun, whats a good version of it?

>> No.2515840

>>2515835
Arcade (rev B international) is trivial to emulate (mame). Saturn and 3DS are very close ports with a bit of extras attached. Skip the rest.

>> No.2515845

>>2515835
If you want to emulate, get the MAME rom and Cannonball. If you have a 3DS, the 3D classics version is excellent.

>> No.2515905

>>2515840
Thanks Ill give it a shot when I get home.

>>2515845
So is Cannonball like an Emulator for Outrun or is it a Source Port?
And I may give the 3DS version a shot, I was quite impressed by Sanic 3D

>> No.2515914

>>2515905
Cannonball is a reverse engineered port, as close to the original instructions as reasonable. It also has a few additional features not in the original, like a higher resolution, different camera and different modes

>> No.2515984

Cannonball is fucking godlike. Imagine spending 5 years of your life doing what that guy did. I'd love to do the same thing to some of my favorite games, but don't have the time.

>> No.2515993

>>2515835
just play MAME

>> No.2516104

>>2515715
Sadly, I don't remember that much of my experiences with this game back then, probably because I was only 9-10 years old. I'm going to have to play this one again, but I want to find the original, not these modified versions (the changes may only be cosmetic, but I'm not sure...) Worst case I'll just retype the whole program in again. I did find a TRS-80 Model I version here, but it has a bunch of controls codes and junk embedded (it's not just plain ASCII):
http://www.classiccmp.org/cpmarchives/trs80/Software/Model%201/T/
Since I never used those machines, I've no idea what that implies. It doesn't seem to be a tokenized file like the GW-BASIC version I linked to earlier, just some garbage (?) control codes for some unknown purpose...

As for screenshots, the Atari version has a couple, but they don't really give a good idea of the gameplay. Better to look at the actual Big Computer Games scan:
http://atariarchives.org/bigcomputergames/showpage.php?page=87

Like a lot of these old BASIC games, the bulk of the instructions are left out of the code in order to conserve precious memory. So the introduction isn't there just for show - it's required reading if you don't want to end up lost and confused inside the game. But anyway it's just a couple pages, so not really a big deal to read through.

But now if you flip a few more pages, right after the end of the program listing you'll find a "sample run", and this basically replaces screenshots, since these games are all pure text mode anyway.
http://atariarchives.org/bigcomputergames/showpage.php?page=95
This one spans about 4 pages, probably because it's a relatively complex game for its time.

>> No.2516152

>>2514885
Technically in Excitebike you're not actually racing anybody so that sorta counts.

>> No.2516160
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>>2516152
>in Excitebike you're not actually racing anybody
What?

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nah just kidding

>> No.2518228

>>2515428
Then it's a checkpoint rally racer with joy-ride themeing and feel.

Meanwhile I think Crazy Taxi is more a game about driving, exaggerated just like OutRun: a day's work ends only when you can't pilot and navigate well enough to keep the clock running, which entails learning the world and figuring out how you can play aggressively and defensively.

>> No.2518894

Please help. I played a game in an arcade as a child. the car was a red sled that gained parts as you hit checkpoints. The levels were like a half pipe. Mid 90s. I can't find it.

>> No.2518896

>>2518894
STUN Runner by Atari

>> No.2518904

>>2518896
WTf. Thank you. Thats it.

>> No.2518908

>>2516160
What version is that?